From Paul Hsieh:
Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed private companies to offer affordable genetic testing directly to consumers, to help them determine their risks of developing problems such as diabetes, heart disease, and various forms of cancer. In response, the U.S. government has told these companies ...
This is the provocative title of Dr. Paul Hsieh's recent article in Pajamas Media. It begins:
Suppose our government declared that everyone had the “right” to a nice steak dinner. The government would require restaurants to sell $50 steak dinners to all comers. But to keep ...
David Catron at Health Care BS quotes Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz on whether ObamaCare authorizes government to require citizens to buy health insurance:
We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance … What we’re doing is that you will be in a different tax ...
Paul Hsieh, M.D. writes:
The key is Obama’s declaration, “I don’t know how this plays politically, but I know it’s right.” Ultimately, Obama and his liberal base believe that government-guaranteed health care is a “moral imperative” — i.e., “it’s right.” And that will also be the key to ...
The Denver Post reminds us of why government should neither expand Medicaid, nor force us to donate to charities, especially ones run by government:
Roughly 19 percent of new food-stamp applications were delayed statewide in October. For Medicaid, 18 percent of new applicants didn't get timely benefits that month, according to ...
From the Idaho Reporter:
In a contentious hearing Thursday morning in the House State Affairs Committee, the Idaho Health Freedom Act (IFHA), sponsored by Rep. Jim Clark, R-Hayden, and co-sponsored by Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Eagle, and Rep. Lynn Luker, R-Boise, passed the committee on a 13-5 party line vote.
During his testimony ...
Dr. Paul Hsieh points out some scary aspects of the House health bill (HR 3962) and the Senate health bill (HR 3590):
Under ObamaCare, patients will be forced to pay for certain kinds of medical care whether they want it or not — thus raising their health care costs.
And patients ...
Says John Graham at the Pacific Research Institute in a new study:
Medicare Advantage ... allows consumers to get their benefits through private insurance plans. Under the Senate Health Care bill, the Medicare Advantage program, would be cut by about $118 billion.
“In a very narrow sense, Medicare Advantage plans cost more ...
As you've probably heard, Senate Majority Leader Harry Read likens those who oppose the Democrats' so-called health care "reform" as those who opposed the end of slavery:
Melissa Clouthier points out the irony of this, as it is the Democrats' plans that erode our freedom and makes us more like slaves ...
Is the for-profit insurance industry a "predator" that "prevent[s] us from having a decent health care system"? Letter writer Bruce Robinson says so (Daily Camera, December 1). He's partially right. The real predators are politicians who inhibit needed health policy reform. But insurers are guilty for concealing how they benefit ...
